About two dozen Yale Law classmates of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh say the judge is a fair-minded jurist whose allegiance is not to politics, but to the Constitution.

Their estimation, expressed in a Monday letter to Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein, is a sharp split from that expressed in an open letter from Yale law students, alumni, and educators last month, which said that “people will die” if Kavanaugh is confirmed.